From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@sgi.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: ZONE_PADDING wastes 4 bytes of the new cacheline
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 21:55:51 -0500
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On Thursday, October 21, 2004 8:26 pm, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I'd be OK with wapping over to the watermark version, as long as we have
> runtime-settable levels.
>
> But I'd be worried about making the default values anything other than zero
> because nobody seems to be hitting the problems.

Yes, please keep the default at 0 regardless of the algorithm.  On the NUMA 
systems I'm aware of, an incremental min just doesn't make any sense.

Thanks,
Jesse
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